Greece possesses more shipping capacity than any other country. It is governed by prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who took office in 2019.
The Port of Piraeus, majority-owned by COSCO, is one of Europe's busiest, with more than 4m containers moving through it every year. Just 30km west, the American government is backing a bid to develop a commercial port at Elefsina. About 500km to the north, Russian and Chinese investors have taken a stake in the Port of Thessaloniki. And farther north-east, American and NATO forces have built a logistics hub at the Port of Alexandroupolis. The ports serve different, if slightly overlapping, markets.
Finance minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has been a vocal advocate for completing the European single market. Greece retained 25% of the country's 5G-spectrum-auction proceeds for a special fund to invest in companies building 5G-enabled applications.
Greece was long a byword for Kafkaesque bureaucracy, but between 2018 and 2024 its scores on several measures of digital public services rose from among the worst in Europe to about average. Mitsotakis gave a very strong mandate to his digital minister on coming to office in 2019: "Many people went to bed on the day after the election and woke up as employees of the digital ministry," says Pierrakakis, who could move whole IT departments from other ministries under his control. The approach—redesigning government processes rather than merely digitising existing ones, overcoming ministry and regional silos, and harvesting low-hanging fruit before tackling harder problems—has attracted attention across Europe. In November 2025 Pierrakakis visited Germany's digital minister, Karsten Wildberger, to share lessons, and the prime minister of the German state of Hesse came to Athens on a fact-finding mission.
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